=v= Many people now read email on phones, so concerns about
connection costs, network bandwidth issues, and even storage
size have all taken on new urgency.
> I am a graphic artist who is accustomed to sending large
> mega-files all over the place on a daily basis -- an essential
> aspect of my work -- and even my most computer-unsavvy clients
> in rural areas have no problems with this.
=v= Delivery of large files to clients expecting graphic art
is a different use case.
> What is unsafe about attachments? Don't all email programs
> have virus scanners that scan attachments before you open
> them?
=v= These still aren't foolproof (though the continuing demise
of Microsoft has certainly made things a lot safer). But again,
for email clients on phones this adds a CPU cost to a low-power
device. Providing helpful links is less of a battery drain.
<_Jym_>
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